Tooth inplant - my experience

Don't laugh at me okay ? It is a normal aging process and it is about time, I have to do something to my teeth to ensure that  I keep enjoying my life and living happily into my twilight years.  All of us will have to do something like this during certain period of our life.

I was recommend to see  a dentist to check on my tooth and he gave me a few options ie pull out my bad tooths and fix a bridge or a denture so that I can keep eating or suffer in pain and continued to eat unhealthy or remained toothless and change my eating habit.  The final option was to carry out an inplant and continue to live my life unchanged.

So, I decided to seek the advise of a qualified dentist . I was told that there are two grades of dentist  ie one who can carry out only extraction  and tooth maintenance or a specialist who can operate and carry out an inplant.  For a normal dentist , they have to study for six years and for a specialist , they will need to spend another four years to get their accredition.  So, for a dentist to be a specialist, they will need to study ten years. Ow! , this needs a long period to qualify.

This Specialist told me that it is not easy to carry out an inplant. First,  I have to take an X-ray to check my bone structure and it is okay, they will need to discuss the function of the inplant with us and whether we need more or less  inplants. On top of this, she told me that what brand do we need . China, Korea, Japanese, USA or Swedish ?  The price of the inplant will vary and of course, the most expensive is the Swedish one.

In my bone structure is not okay, they will need to plant bones into my gum section and to strengthen the bone until the bone becomes more strong and firm. This will take a few months and it is a painful wait.
She told me that there will be alot of planning and follow up treatments.

But, the most important of all , is the price of the inplant , it varies from RM5K to RM8K per inplant and this is really the killing point as not everybody can affort such pricing.  If we inplant 6 tooths and have six bridge , it will cost about RM56K . This means putting an MyVi into our mouth.  It is terrible thinking about it.

Why has it to be so expensive ?  I think it is because of the 10 years qualifying experience , the expensive titanium tooth and the time spend on the after inplant service.  I read a case that inplanst are making the dentist rich and this profession is very much sort after. 

As for me, I dread looking into the mouth of another person and I thinking I will be having serious nightmares and vomitting sessions.   My life will become miserable thinking about digging out the tars and dirty deposits and looking at the decaying tooths. 

Yes, I would like to live a life away from looking into the "black hole of calcutta"... I don't remember the story anymore.

Namaste.